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 | `specs/` | reviewed Solution-Design specs (submitted at session finalize) |
 | `plans/` | archived implementation plans |
+| `ui/designs/` | UI-design artifacts (Claude Design outputs), referenced from specs |
 
 Roadmap and the deployment version `pin` will be added as the build gets underway.
 
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+# ui/designs — UI-design artifacts
+
+Standard content-repo collection (alongside `specs/` and `plans/`) holding this
+app's UI-design artifacts — primarily Claude Design outputs generated from a
+Solution Design (rubric: `engineering/solution-design/claude-design-vs-code.md`).
+
+A Solution Design with a UX-involving slice references its design artifact here
+by path. The spec-linkage gate and the backfill gesture for adding that
+reference once a design exists are tracked in
+[wiggleverse-dev-claude-plugin#93](https://git.wiggleverse.org/wiggleverse/wiggleverse-dev-claude-plugin/issues/93).
+
+Suggested layout: one subfolder per design, named for the spec/slice it serves,
+e.g. `ui/designs/SD-0001-slice-3-storefront/`.